Dr. Salome Papaspyrou Rao is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is currently involved in the organization “New Agriculture New Generation”, as well as coordinating the “One Nutrition” initiative at the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, at Rutgers University. Her Ph.D. thesis research was in the area of adipocyte metabolism, specifically on the hormonal regulation of lipoprotein lipase and leptin by human adipocytes. Upon completion of her doctorate, Papaspyrou Rao was involved as co-director of the New Jersey Obesity Group, coordinating research in the area of obesity between Rutgers and other research institutes in the New Jersey and New York area. Furthermore, she coordinated numerous conferences in the area of basic research in Obesity as well as in the field of community nutrition. More recent research has been on the relationship between weight loss and taste preferences in the Sensory Evaluation/Nutrition Laboratory at the Department of Food Science, Rutgers University. Papaspyrou-Rao obtained her undergraduate degree at the University of California at Berkeley in Nutrition and Food Technology and her Master’s degree at Cornell University in Food Science, with a minor in Biochemistry. Dr. Rao also holds the Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) certification.
Salome Papaspyrou Rao
